Read the excerpt from Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy. Please don't annotate on this one! I didn't make copies for everyone.
In your Writer's Notebook, take notice of techniques the author uses in the narrative. How is it structured? What stands out?
Question: Future Writing Prompt!
In his second volume of memoirs, Ways of Escape (1980), Graham Green observed the following: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.”
How can writers use memoirs as therapy to deal with the human situation and to reflect on larger issues/ideas?
Group Discussion
Create an anchor chart with your group that lists characteristics of a great narrative.
Bell Ringer: Reading
Read the excerpt from Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy. Please don't annotate on this one! I didn't make copies for everyone.In your Writer's Notebook, take notice of techniques the author uses in the narrative. How is it structured? What stands out?
Question: Future Writing Prompt!
In his second volume of memoirs, Ways of Escape (1980), Graham Green observed the following:"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation.”
How can writers use memoirs as therapy to deal with the human situation and to reflect on larger issues/ideas?
Group Discussion
Create an anchor chart with your group that lists characteristics of a great narrative.